Show off your Peas!

[BYC-user-174785]

Wow Zaz you have lots of peas! How many do you actually have? It also looks like you will have many more trains than last year!

My spalding boy looks gorgeous, but of course he is to flighty for me to get a good picture of him. The opal we train is also stunning but a lot shorter. At certain angles it has a pink shine to it.

 

[destinduck]

Ill say! Peas everywhere. Whoo! hoo! Then take a bad pic Blue.

He is a preeeetty rascal indeed.

 

[zazouse]

a couple a two plus year old peas this is the start of their first train, last year they had 1 dinkey eye feather.

MR. green jeans and his first train, he is 15 months old.



Faces of My Annie Future guardian of the peas






This is her pea gravel pile for now




Now Bo bo is the queen

 

[BYC-user-174785]

destinduck, my fingers will freeze off by the time I can get a bad picture of him! I better have gloves. He now has so many green peafowl characteristics, and his few flaws of his IB blood are so obvious to me...but he is as close to a green as I can have for now.

Zaz, I love Annie! My peafowl all take three years for a train, not even as two years old do they have trains, just one or two year feathers. Free ranging sure does a lot of good it seems.

 

[destinduck]

Haha. I forget some time about how cold you have it up there. I know I couldnt take it. Your peacock is sweet! Those few flaws as you say are now probably his "best assets" because of it . Im not sure if you knew it but when I first got my peacocks it sure wasnt getting them for preserving the species. I get any and all my birds for ME. What I like. Be it colors, personalities, or some other traits.Rarity isnt at the top of that short list to be sure. Matter of fact sometimes because of rarity in some I like I have to shell out more dough than I like of course and I feel obligated to have at least some babies even if I dont want any to keep any more to add to my own flock .However if the powers that be needed ANY of my birds peafowl or whatever I keep to save the species,,,Well Im in that boat too! Im a conservationist but Im not a hardcore tree hugger type niether. At the time I didnt even realize how rare they were. It was because I just mainly wanted to keep some of these beautiful birds but needed the "quietness factor" or it wasnt happpening. Ive got a "few flaws "myself.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I actually did think of one positive of the snow. It restricts the space they have to runaway! But this is his first winter ever that he will be exposed to. Past years he was in a heated space for the winter. He sure is mean to his fellow pea firends that were moved in with him for the winter. Only likes one hen, and that is good because that will be his mate. My smew boy loves eating from my hand and he is coloring up so nicely! When he is done molting I will get pictures of him, and I will try getting pictures of the peacock.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

These are some previously posted pictures, nothing new, and I will never have new pictures of one of my first peafowl ever. This peahen passed away in my arms after I came home from school.... I just feel so bad. It was heartbreaking seeing her remaining two peachicks react. As soon as I set her down, they ran up to her and sat down next to her. Later when they went back outside they did not scram for her anymore...

 

[zazouse]

Beautiful photos and you will always have her memory and here offspring.. plus these beautiful photos.

But i know what you are feeling, i lost my first ever white peahen Lady Di but i was able to get her sisters the next year and now i have lots of their offspring to remind me of her

 

[3BirdGirlz]

Awww , so sorry a Blue Creek Beautiful pictures of her.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Thanks guys... Today her peachicks are screaming for me... The ones that are screaming for her are not her actual peachicks. I only have one hen left that she is the actual mom to. I never thought she would die this young (three and a half years old), so I sold her offspring. Now I have no blue peafowl. Now I think the traditional Blues and Greens in their pure form are the best.